Nina Planck’s – Real Food: What to Eat and Why helped me to start understanding the differences between industrial food and real food. (Hint, if your great grandparents didn’t have it available, it isn’t real food)

Gary Taubes –Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health I wanted to throw this book across the room and against the wall so many times, because I was so angry. Angry that what the government and the media told us wasn’t the truth. This book is fairly hardcore science and is difficult to get through, but the conclusions that Taubes, a scientific journalist reaches after spending 7 years researching the actual studies, are startling. Definitely not an easy read, but something that should be read and absorbed.